My Purpose Quotes

From your results I have determined that you are one of the strongest Divergent, which I say not to compliment you but to explain my purpose. If I am to develop a simulation that cannot be thwarted by the Divergent mind, I must study the strongest Divergent mind in order to shore up all weaknesses in the technology.
- Veronica Roth

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
- Fantasia Barrino

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.
- Juliette Binoche

She's my purpose and we're going to save each other. We're going to save everyone. And then I'm going to convince her that she's supposed to stay here. With me.
- Kendare Blake

My purpose is: What Lord? Where Lord? When Lord? Yes Lord!
- Christine Brooks Martin

My purpose is far greater than my pain.
- Foxy Brown

It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return.I am here because there is no other place to be.
- Nicholas Sparks

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
- Robert Browning

As for me: I loyally remained right where I was, remembering the very first I had ever seen the boy and then just now, the very last time-and all the times in between. The deep aching grief I knew I would feel would come soon enough, but at that moment mostly what I felt was peace, secure in the knowledge that by living my life the way I had, everything had come down to this moment.
I had fulfilled my purpose.
- W Bruce Cameron

My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn't want to cause any unhappiness nowin that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn't here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.
- W Bruce Cameron

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.
- Terry Pratchett

Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.
- Eoin Colfer

My purpose in going to Walden Pond
was not to live cheaply
nor to live dearly there
but to transact some private business,
with the fewest obstacles...
It's a good place for business...
it offers advantages
which it may not be good policy to divulge.
- Henry David Thoreau

My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.
- George Armstrong Custer

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose.
- Santosh Kalwar

...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.
- W Paul Young

(God speaking)...just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means that I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
- W Paul Young

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.
- W Paul Young

Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.
- W Paul Young

My purpose was to get leave to bring my party into the settlements in order to outfit and to obtain the supplies that had now become necessary.
- John Charles Fremont

Nothing will divert me from my purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln

Okay, I say again. It seems that I've been reduced to single syllables by a single touch. Maybe Angela's right. Maybe the swoony hand-holding in my vision means that part of my purpose means getting this really hot guy as my boyfriend. That wouldn't suck.
- Cynthia Hand

My purpose is to have American Jews look away from the success story with which they've cheered themselves up, and to have them remember the classical tradition, whatever it is.
- Arthur Hertzberg

When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.
- Shoeless Joe Jackson

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.
- Joyce Meyer

I walk with a purpose. And a limp. (The limp helps serve my purpose, which is to gain sympathy.)
- Jarod Kintz

A soul needs a purpose to live and so I concluded that my purpose was to kill everyone besides myself. I felt alive.
--Gaara
- Masashi Kishimoto

Gene, on the desire to be Finny: I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.
- John Knowles

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.
- Boris Kodjoe

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?
- Emir Kusturica

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
- David Livingstone

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.
- Juliette Gordon Low

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
- Shirley Maclaine

So softly Lizzy has to lean over to hear me, I say, 'I can't face the world until I know why I'm here.'
You're kidding me.'
I shake my head vehemently. 'No. I need to figure out my purpose. Until I do, what's the use of getting up?
- Wendy Mass

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.
- Brandy Norwood

I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.
- Karen Miller

My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn't be.
- Solange Nicole

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.
- David Niven

My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.
- Ovid

Why am i here? What's my purpose?
- Julie Anne Peters

For my purpose, the non-fiction form of abstract knowledge doesn't interest me; the final, applied form of fiction, of story, does.
- Ayn Rand

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.
- William Shirley

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
- Red Skelton

My purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

My purpose is to refuel, refresh and rejuvenate moms.
- Lisa Whelchel